Mike Evans might be the most complete receiver in Brady's career. The guy can pretty much run every route; it's hard to believe he is a really big guy at 6'5", 230 lbs because he is really quick and accelerates fast too. I hadn't heard that much about him other than that he's a stud receiver playing for a crappy team, so I looked into his background more to try to get context.
A few compares/contrasts.
Randy Moss is 6'4", though I'll bet everyone would guess, if they didn't know, that he is taller than Evans. He weighed about 210 so very different body types. Moss had that spectacular catch radius with his long arms and other worldly hands; he wasn't much of a thread on short passes (at least after his first few seasons). Moss is probably the best overall wide receiver I've ever seen due to his GOAT deep pass ability, but just a physical comparison.
Josh Gordon is the closest recent Patriots comp at 6'3", 225 lbs.
Brady's past tight ends have been closer in size to Evans than his receivers. Ben Watson was 6'3", 250 lbs; Aaron Hernandez was 6'2, 245 lbs; when Rob Gronkowski lost weight after retiring and had a very "slimmed down" look, he was at about 6'6", 240 lbs.
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Calvin Johnson was perceived to be an absolute freak of nature, and he was; you would typically hear draft pundits marvel about him and see stuff about him on Sports Science. His size and measurables were incredibly high, whereas with Evans you don't tend to hear a lot about his ridiculous measurements. Here are is how the two stack up:
How Evans physically compares to Megatron
Height
Evans -6'5"
Megatron - 6'5"
Weight
Megatron - 237 lbs
Evans - 231 lbs
Wingspan
Evans - 35 1/8"
Megatron - 33 3/8"
Hand Size
Evans - 9 5/8"
Megatron - 9 1/4"
In terms of athletic ability coming out of college, Megatron had some legendary numbers at the combine including a 4.38 forty time versus Evans at 4.53. He also had some other ridiculous numbers for broad jump, etc. at his pro day, though not officially measured at combine.
